Authors:	Meibauer, Jörg
Title:	On commitment to untruthful implicatures
Online publication date:	18-Apr-2023
Year of first publication:	2023
Language:	english
Abstract:	In the current debate on the lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count untruthful implicatures as cases of lying. What matters for them is the (degree) of commitment to an untruthful implicature. Since untruthful conversational implicatures may arise with non-assertions, and untruthful presuppositions are also judged as lying, a realistic conception of lying should aim at a definition of lying that it is able to cover these possibilities. Such a conception, which supports traditional assumptions about the semantics-pragmatics distinction, leads to a commitment-based definition of lying, as recently proposed by a number of authors.
DDC:	400 Sprache 400 Language
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8808
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Intercultural Pragmatics 20
Pages or article number:	75 98
Publisher:	de Gruyter
Publisher place:	Berlin
Issue date:	2023
ISSN:	1613-365X
Publisher DOI:	10.1515/ip-2023-0004
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H